On 5/30/2013 1:17 AM, Harold Groot wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:30:06 -0700, Lee Gold XP <
lee....@ca.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been given permission by Margaret Davis & Kritoph Klover (who have
>> legal control of Cynthia McQuillin's copyrights), and the enthusiastic
>> consent of Dr. James Robinson, to do a Cynthia McQuillin songbook.
>
> <snip lists of printed songs, transcribed songs, wanted songs>
>
> To help people quickly eliminate large chunks of songs, it might help
> if you gave a list of the songbooks and tapes/CDs you have - or if you
> are confident you have ALL the authorized songbooks and tapes/CDs you
> could just mention that. Or that you have all the "All Cindy" stuff
> but aren't sure of con-specific compilation albums, or whatever the
> situation is with regard to commercially produced items.
I own (or have been loaned) the following Songbooks
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Bedlam Cats
Crystal Memories & Crystal Visions
Dark Moon Circle
Dreams of Fortune
Melody Pirates
Moon Shadows
Mystic Lady
Singer in the Shadow
Uncharted Stars
Witch's Dance
all the Kanteles
the three Kushyon Flyte House songbooks
I have looked over Mary Creasey's run of all the Pfnens, but need to
scan (for proofreading)
Pfnen #29's -- Ring Song for Frodo
Pfnen #30's -- Fool to Feed the Drive
and I forgot to note down the provenance of "ConChord's Coming" but I
suspect it's in a 1982 or early 1983 Pfnen.
If anyone can send me jpgs or pdfs of these, I would be grateful.
I've got the following anthology songbooks
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Bayfilk I
Conterpoint Too (1996)
The Golden Gait Filkbook
Minus Ten and Counting
Sing Me Tomorrow (Consonance 2006)
Westerfilk I & II
A Wolfrider's Reflections
And we looked through a numer of ConChord songbooks and At the Cockpits.
And the Consonance songbooks I edited.
>
> Similarly, if you have info about what cons might have had Cindy
> Concerts, that might assist a search by finding a lot of Cindy
> Material in one place (plus open filks at those cons, of course). Or
> knowledge of which cons she attended without doing a concert, where
> "open filk" recordings still might produce something. Being able to
> exclude cons that she didn't attend would narrow the field.
>
Sorry, I can't help on that.
I also have transcriptions of three songs that were apparently sung by
Cynthia that aren't credited to her -- at least not by the transcribers'
titles. Does anyone recognize any of these (and they may not have been
written by Cynthia)?
Here's the first verses:
FAREWELL (?)
Cindy McQuillin?, transcribed by Lila Holbrook and Lois Welling, with
thanks to Harold Stein
Oh, fare ye well, my bonny bairn,
More than a lover, you are my child.
You were the pride of every man
Who stood to your command
And I savored you a while.
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THE PRICE YOU PAID (?)
by Cynthia McQuillin?, transcribed by Lila Holbrook and Lois Welling,
with thanks to Harold Stein
The first time you saw me, love,
I lay so still beneath the sky,
Lulled by gentle starlight song
And sorely hurt, I prayed to die.
The last surviving elven son
You could not save my mortal life
Still you took me to your home
And guarded me through all that night.
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WEIRD SISTERS (?)
by Cynthia McQuillin?, transcribed by Lila Holbrook and Lois Welling,
with thanks to Harold Stein
a version of this is found on the Web at
https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/nest%20freemark but not credited to
anyone
You could trace our course through the Milky Way
By our trail of thundering light (a webpage has this as
"by our wak")
But they called us home as we heeled our keel
Around Ursa Minor's bight.
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--Lee